Faculty Quotes

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...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this,… — James Joseph Sylvester
That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else… — John Donne
Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope. — Michel de Montaigne
Work kills no one, but worry has killed multitudesâ€¦ Worry not only saps vitality and wastes energy, but it also seriously affects the quality of… — Orison S. Marden
Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable,… — Dudley Nichols
I do not say the mind gets informed by action, â€” bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless… — William Mountford
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of… — Malcolm De Chazal
According to Jains the soul in pure form has infiniteness in terms of its knowledge and power. These faculties are obstructed for its exhibition due… — Virchand Gandhi
All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power, politics, and luck.… — Lewis Hyde
Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task… — Hector Hugh Munro
A significant contribution to science pedagogy and to the scholarship of teaching and learning. ... [W]ill be of interest to researchers in the area of… — David W. Oxtoby
Intuition is the discriminative faculty that enables you to decide which of two lines of reasoning is right. Perfect intuition makes you a master of… — Paramahansa Yogananda
For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays… — John Crowe Ransom
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Admitting that it is the profession of our sex to teach, we perceive the mother to be first in point of precedence, in degree of… — Lydia Sigourney
But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to feel the proper… — David Hume
It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount. — Henry David Thoreau
When it came to the 2000 election, 84 percent of Ivy League faculty voted for Al Gore, 6 percent for Ralph Nader and 9 percent… — Walter E. Williams
Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment… — Henry David Thoreau

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